quotations

Found 13 thoughts of quotations

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'

Sir Winston Churchill

I improve on misquotation.

Cary Grant

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Seneca

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.